No Country for Old Men
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Published in 2005, No Country for Old Men begins when Llewelyn Moss, hunting in the parched country along the Texas–Mexico border, comes upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone violently wrong. Among the bodies are a cache of heroin and more than two million dollars in cash; Moss takes the money, setting in motion a relentless pursuit by Anton Chigurh, a chillingly methodical killer. As the violence spreads, ageing Sheriff Ed Tom Bell follows the trail, increasingly troubled by a world whose brutality seems beyond his understanding.
Part crime thriller, part modern Western, McCarthy’s novel is also a searching meditation on fate, conscience, violence and the passing of an older moral order. Its terse dialogue and stark desert landscapes give the story an almost biblical severity, while Sheriff Bell’s reflections lend it a profound melancholy. A gripping and unsettling work, No Country for Old Men brings the traditions of the Western into the contemporary world with devastating force.
From the book
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
On No Country for Old Men
“Profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered. The most accessible of all his works.”
— The Washington Post